| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
When I was your age, television was called books. And this i... |
66.82 |
1.0711 |
0.1919 |
213 |
2 |
62.79 |
2010-12-03 |
| 2. |
On a manual typewriter, strike the key with a nice sharp str... |
64.96 |
1.0016 |
0.2263 |
218 |
1 |
64.96 |
2010-12-12 |
| 3. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
64.79 |
0.9697 |
0.2639 |
266 |
1 |
64.79 |
2010-12-03 |
| 4. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
63.68 |
0.9340 |
0.2734 |
296 |
1 |
63.68 |
2010-12-03 |
| 5. |
The problem is, Willie, is that Charles and yourself are not... |
63.68 |
1.0396 |
0.1613 |
149 |
1 |
63.68 |
2010-12-03 |
| 6. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
62.35 |
0.9871 |
0.2317 |
209 |
1 |
62.35 |
2010-12-03 |
| 7. |
The unknown future rolls toward us. I face it for the first ... |
61.07 |
1.0252 |
0.1263 |
176 |
1 |
61.07 |
2011-02-01 |
| 8. |
The invention of the wheel represented a major turning point... |
60.91 |
0.9792 |
0.2140 |
265 |
2 |
58.50 |
2011-02-01 |
| 9. |
Convection also plays a minor role because of the relative t... |
60.57 |
0.9820 |
0.1663 |
274 |
1 |
60.57 |
2010-12-03 |
| 10. |
Hey Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me, I'm not sleepy a... |
60.23 |
0.8996 |
0.2367 |
192 |
1 |
60.23 |
2010-12-12 |
| 11. |
There's a piece of Maria in every song that I sing. And the ... |
60.09 |
1.1296 |
0.0387 |
252 |
1 |
60.09 |
2010-12-02 |
| 12. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
59.78 |
1.0787 |
0.0529 |
237 |
1 |
59.78 |
2011-02-01 |
| 13. |
But older than me now, more constant, more real, and the fur... |
59.06 |
1.1081 |
0.0456 |
206 |
1 |
59.06 |
2010-12-03 |
| 14. |
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Somet... |
58.94 |
1.0666 |
0.0508 |
297 |
2 |
45.61 |
2011-02-01 |
| 15. |
You're going in the drink and I am going to make a cup of te... |
58.88 |
1.0240 |
0.0889 |
256 |
1 |
58.88 |
2010-12-02 |
| 16. |
The goal of the true seeker is to become a sage, or superior... |
58.82 |
1.0358 |
0.1209 |
349 |
1 |
58.82 |
2010-12-03 |
| 17. |
The problem we now face is that this thin layer of atmospher... |
58.67 |
0.9619 |
0.1555 |
393 |
1 |
58.67 |
2010-12-03 |
| 18. |
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll ... |
58.62 |
1.0496 |
0.0606 |
314 |
2 |
50.52 |
2011-02-01 |
| 19. |
Is it really necessary to send that email? The more emails y... |
58.56 |
1.0120 |
0.0970 |
290 |
2 |
54.10 |
2011-02-01 |
| 20. |
If you are given too many choices, if you are forced to cons... |
58.08 |
0.9857 |
0.1138 |
293 |
1 |
58.08 |
2010-12-12 |
| 21. |
I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last momen... |
57.75 |
1.0168 |
0.0793 |
271 |
1 |
57.75 |
2010-11-29 |
| 22. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
57.48 |
0.9786 |
0.1099 |
235 |
1 |
57.48 |
2010-12-03 |
| 23. |
Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing ... |
57.37 |
1.0352 |
0.0545 |
341 |
1 |
57.37 |
2010-12-02 |
| 24. |
Since every piece of matter in the Universe is in some way a... |
57.18 |
1.0095 |
0.0725 |
316 |
1 |
57.18 |
2010-12-03 |
| 25. |
The odds are that you will generally meet the worst of them.... |
57.04 |
1.0941 |
0.0179 |
256 |
2 |
55.25 |
2010-12-03 |
| 26. |
The melted mozzarella layer, which we shall designate MML, i... |
56.80 |
1.0254 |
0.0912 |
217 |
2 |
50.79 |
2011-02-01 |
| 27. |
And in the world a heart of darkness, a firezone, where poet... |
56.76 |
1.0214 |
0.0526 |
269 |
1 |
56.76 |
2010-12-12 |
| 28. |
It takes more than a calorie of fossil fuel energy to produc... |
56.51 |
0.8723 |
0.1940 |
185 |
1 |
56.51 |
2010-12-02 |
| 29. |
The great edifice of variety and choice that is an American ... |
55.42 |
1.0083 |
0.0857 |
273 |
1 |
55.42 |
2010-12-03 |
| 30. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
55.38 |
0.8914 |
0.1579 |
366 |
1 |
55.38 |
2010-12-03 |
| 31. |
After removal from the oven, the pizza is sliced and plated ... |
55.30 |
1.0320 |
0.0526 |
293 |
1 |
55.30 |
2010-12-03 |
| 32. |
The treatment of atoms with more than one electron requires ... |
55.25 |
0.9653 |
0.0895 |
394 |
1 |
55.25 |
2010-12-03 |
| 33. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
55.15 |
0.9739 |
0.1064 |
412 |
1 |
55.15 |
2010-12-03 |
| 34. |
Good evening, London. Allow me first to apologize for this i... |
54.84 |
0.9676 |
0.0792 |
442 |
1 |
54.84 |
2010-12-12 |
| 35. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
54.61 |
0.8878 |
0.1459 |
346 |
1 |
54.61 |
2010-12-03 |
| 36. |
In May 1980, Fidel Castro opened the harbor at Mariel, Cuba ... |
54.56 |
0.8947 |
0.1436 |
366 |
2 |
53.34 |
2010-12-03 |
| 37. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
54.30 |
0.9148 |
0.1148 |
317 |
1 |
54.30 |
2010-12-02 |
| 38. |
Burning my bridges and smashing my mirrors, turning to see i... |
54.10 |
1.0388 |
0.0172 |
243 |
1 |
54.10 |
2010-12-02 |
| 39. |
So my heart goes out to them. Figuratively. I would never ac... |
53.93 |
0.9279 |
0.0998 |
317 |
1 |
53.93 |
2010-12-02 |
| 40. |
Language is one of the keys to being human. It allows us to ... |
53.82 |
1.0263 |
-0.0084 |
267 |
1 |
53.82 |
2010-11-29 |
| 41. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
53.80 |
1.0767 |
-0.0606 |
212 |
1 |
53.80 |
2010-11-29 |
| 42. |
The only message I got was from the company that holds my st... |
53.11 |
0.9632 |
0.0484 |
392 |
1 |
53.11 |
2010-12-03 |
| 43. |
We live in a charmed world. If we have money we can buy lite... |
53.03 |
1.0125 |
0.0291 |
413 |
1 |
53.03 |
2011-02-01 |
| 44. |
Groups of illegal miners smuggle themselves down in freight ... |
52.95 |
1.0403 |
0.0018 |
275 |
1 |
52.95 |
2010-11-29 |
| 45. |
The wine list looks so imposing that you finally give up lab... |
52.67 |
0.8520 |
0.1453 |
202 |
1 |
52.67 |
2010-11-29 |
| 46. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
52.37 |
1.0284 |
0.0059 |
282 |
1 |
52.37 |
2010-12-03 |
| 47. |
There are two kinds of fibers in our muscles, red and white.... |
52.24 |
0.9938 |
-0.0047 |
339 |
1 |
52.24 |
2010-11-29 |
| 48. |
Lucid but wholly false recollections can easily be induced b... |
51.86 |
0.9886 |
-0.0048 |
220 |
1 |
51.86 |
2010-12-03 |
| 49. |
Well, it just so happens, this hacienda comes with its very ... |
51.57 |
1.0197 |
-0.0469 |
226 |
1 |
51.57 |
2010-11-29 |
| 50. |
But if in efficient causes it is possible to go on to infini... |
51.44 |
1.0441 |
-0.0296 |
316 |
1 |
51.44 |
2010-11-29 |
| 51. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
51.33 |
1.0109 |
-0.0069 |
400 |
1 |
51.33 |
2010-12-03 |
| 52. |
Imagine considering "if" as a two-finger movement instead of... |
51.28 |
0.8956 |
0.0792 |
322 |
1 |
51.28 |
2010-12-03 |
| 53. |
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have n... |
51.02 |
0.8919 |
0.0718 |
205 |
2 |
46.51 |
2010-12-02 |
| 54. |
They had been given a sign - a powerful, lucid sign - that u... |
51.01 |
0.9084 |
0.0605 |
404 |
1 |
51.01 |
2011-02-01 |
| 55. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
50.83 |
0.8958 |
0.0706 |
322 |
2 |
47.35 |
2010-12-03 |
| 56. |
When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, ... |
50.71 |
0.9724 |
-0.0099 |
237 |
1 |
50.71 |
2010-11-29 |
| 57. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
50.54 |
0.9710 |
-0.0212 |
173 |
1 |
50.54 |
2010-12-03 |
| 58. |
We began to recognize in them a strange obsession. After all... |
50.47 |
0.9851 |
-0.0280 |
317 |
1 |
50.47 |
2010-11-29 |
| 59. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
50.41 |
0.9636 |
-0.0104 |
254 |
1 |
50.41 |
2010-11-29 |
| 60. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
50.38 |
1.0498 |
-0.1018 |
180 |
1 |
50.38 |
2010-11-29 |
| 61. |
Radiation could be precisely determined, in principle, if we... |
49.55 |
0.8793 |
0.0587 |
157 |
1 |
49.55 |
2010-11-29 |
| 62. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
49.07 |
1.0399 |
-0.1068 |
294 |
1 |
49.07 |
2010-12-03 |
| 63. |
Get it straight buster - I'm not here to say please, I'm her... |
48.54 |
0.9527 |
-0.0349 |
251 |
1 |
48.54 |
2010-11-29 |
| 64. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
47.99 |
0.9485 |
-0.0397 |
236 |
1 |
47.99 |
2011-02-01 |
| 65. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
47.85 |
0.9572 |
-0.0542 |
201 |
1 |
47.85 |
2010-11-29 |
| 66. |
All that year the animals worked like slaves. But they were ... |
47.61 |
0.9260 |
-0.0155 |
243 |
1 |
47.61 |
2010-11-29 |
| 67. |
The truth of the matter is that there are a lot of available... |
47.37 |
1.0343 |
-0.1019 |
242 |
1 |
47.37 |
2010-11-29 |
| 68. |
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, a... |
47.21 |
0.9769 |
-0.0866 |
263 |
1 |
47.21 |
2010-11-29 |
| 69. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
47.15 |
0.8722 |
0.0220 |
285 |
1 |
47.15 |
2010-11-29 |
| 70. |
There are still some places where you can get all you can ea... |
47.14 |
0.9722 |
-0.0793 |
283 |
1 |
47.14 |
2010-11-29 |
| 71. |
Remember that humor is written backwards. That means you fir... |
46.47 |
1.0714 |
-0.2025 |
129 |
1 |
46.47 |
2010-11-29 |
| 72. |
I don't want tickets, I need you to find me a painting, a cl... |
45.80 |
1.0506 |
-0.1569 |
277 |
1 |
45.80 |
2010-12-02 |
| 73. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
45.78 |
1.0574 |
-0.1647 |
205 |
1 |
45.78 |
2010-12-03 |
| 74. |
The ultimate way to compose is to be able to keyboard as fas... |
45.49 |
1.0426 |
-0.1842 |
323 |
1 |
45.49 |
2010-11-29 |
| 75. |
The evidence in the standard history of Qwerty versus Dvorak... |
45.33 |
0.9088 |
-0.0475 |
348 |
1 |
45.33 |
2010-12-02 |
| 76. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
44.87 |
0.8602 |
-0.0148 |
206 |
1 |
44.87 |
2010-11-29 |
| 77. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
44.38 |
1.0211 |
-0.1526 |
213 |
1 |
44.38 |
2010-11-29 |
| 78. |
You have a class of young strong men and women, and they wan... |
44.18 |
1.0993 |
-0.2675 |
265 |
1 |
44.18 |
2010-11-29 |
| 79. |
In 1969 four computers located around the country were in co... |
43.87 |
0.9128 |
-0.0432 |
369 |
1 |
43.87 |
2010-11-29 |
| 80. |
I rejected those answers; instead, I chose something differe... |
43.58 |
0.9863 |
-0.1594 |
339 |
1 |
43.58 |
2010-12-03 |
| 81. |
In 1972, domestic oil production peaked and then began its i... |
43.51 |
0.8442 |
-0.0188 |
265 |
1 |
43.51 |
2010-11-29 |
| 82. |
There is a theory which states that if anybody ever discover... |
43.32 |
0.8892 |
-0.0652 |
207 |
1 |
43.32 |
2010-11-29 |
| 83. |
To an outsider's ear it sounds absurdly wild and ridiculous ... |
42.12 |
1.0365 |
-0.2123 |
162 |
1 |
42.12 |
2010-11-29 |
| 84. |
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I al... |
39.63 |
1.1215 |
-0.3509 |
200 |
1 |
39.63 |
2010-11-29 |
| 85. |
A little boy went out to play. When he opened his door, he s... |
38.19 |
0.9965 |
-0.2820 |
168 |
1 |
38.19 |
2010-12-03 |
| 86. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
37.81 |
0.9168 |
-0.2032 |
240 |
1 |
37.81 |
2010-11-29 |
| 87. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
35.44 |
0.9072 |
-0.2427 |
237 |
1 |
35.44 |
2010-11-29 |
| 88. |
My friend, I shall be pedagogic, and say you ought to start ... |
35.36 |
1.0125 |
-0.3501 |
224 |
1 |
35.36 |
2010-11-29 |
| 89. |
Sparkling wines are wines that contain carbon dioxide bubble... |
31.32 |
0.9353 |
-0.3524 |
177 |
1 |
31.32 |
2010-11-29 |